Nevada County picayune., 1887-02-16
ARKANSAS NEWS.
Gathered from our Exchanges,

 Chief of Police at Hot Springs.
 The State Teach ers AssoeIatlon is to meet at Louake, June 24th.
 The Pine Bluff compFe ss mas handled over J0.oo0 bales 0t cot ton this seasou.
 The Primitive B;tptisf Church, near Hobart, Yell county, was burned by iAeeudiaries afew nights ago.
 Jack Poe. an old coIored man living near Little Rock, WAS robbed last week of sl32, the savings of his labor.
 A splinter that had been in the foot Of Miss Lucy Ludwig, ot Con- way, for seven years, was removed the other day.
 Last week ln the Circuit court of Clark county, Morgan Bell was sentenced to three years in the peuitentiary for burglary.
 Will Brady, of Morriltou, had a rising iu his head, and last week came very near bleeding to death, the blood running out of his ear.
 Allen Hudgins, an aged negro, was found dead i'll his cabin hear Conway last week. He Is said to have been the father ot 26 chlI- dren.
 The Serpent reports measles rag ing Ill the vicinity of Magazine, Lo- gau county. We hear of the exis- tence of this disease in other sec tions also.
 Hugh A. Dlasmure, of Fayette- vile, having been confirmed as minister 10 the Kingdom of Corear will leave for his post of duty about the -ith inst.
 A detachable blade to au ax has been invented by an Arkansas man. so that when the blade Is worn out 1t can be taken off and another attached in minute.
 The gin of N. W. Mason, ill Woodruff county, burned last week, together with i5 bales If cotton. Loss about si,O00, on which there was no insurance.
 Miss Annie White, aged l5, was instantly killed and her sister, Mrs. Ross Denton, was seriously injured, by a runaway team few days ago, near CarroIltou, Carroll county.
 Real estate at Fort Smith k said to have doubled iu price within the past four weeks. Coal discov- cries and rich iron ore and au in- tux of railroads Is said to be the cause.
 An excellent specimen of zine was discovered in Bentongille by a party digging we'll. The vein was struck nine feet from the sur face, and there appeared to be large quantities of 1t.
 Articles Of association have been filed with the Secretary of State of the Wheel Trade Cnion," the capital stock-l0, ,00O, divided into shares ofs2j each. X. present the company will do business at Cabot, Lonoke county.
 A negro was arrested in Monroe county last week for poisoning five wells ou a plantation, the mischief being discovered before any one had been poisoned by drinking the water except one man who was saved by an emetic.
 J. 5. Howard has been jailed in Hampstead county for robbiug himself of several hundred dollars belonging to a widow woman who had intrusted him with some of her business matters. Part of the money was recovered,
 At reception in Little Rock re cently, rendered to the daughter of Gen. w. l.. CabeII. of Dallas. Texas, Gov. Hughes, Gov. Rector Gen. RoystOn and Gen Pagan danced in the same quadrille to the tune of the Arkansas Traveller.
 A Horse Shoe correspondent gives an account of how Thos. Puddle, of Scott county, was killed a few days ago by limb falling on him while he was trying to extin- guish the fire from a burning tree to keep it from falling on his fence.  Puddle formerly resided in Sebas- tain county.
 Nick Paird, sent 10 the peniten- tiary from H.paa. tad c.,,,,@,. ;